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Carol Chillington Rutter, MA, PhD (Michigan) – ProfessorRenaissance theatre and performance, cultural representation, the social, political and economic location of theatre in culture, and the dialogue between performance and culture, both in a play’s original and its subsequent performance. She writes about Shakespeare and his contemporaries on his stage and on ours, and specifically about the representation of women’s roles - as in Clamorous Voices: Shakespeare’s Women Today (1988),and Enter the Body: Women and Representation on Shakespeare’s Stage and Documents of the Rose Playhouse (MUP, 1999), where her work is grounded in the intersecting critical discourses of feminism, cultural materialism, and performance studies. She also writes about film and poetry. Her selection of the poems of Tony Harrison, Tony Harrison: Permanently Bard (Bloodaxe 1995) won the Heinemann Award, 1996. Ian Sansom - BA (Cantab), D.Phil (Oxon) - Professor Research interests: creative writing (fiction and non-fiction); creative writing pedagogy; contemporary fiction; reviewing; radio broadcasting. He is the author of nine books, including The Truth About Babies (Granta, 2002), Ring Road (4th Estate/Harper Collins, 2004), and the Mobile Library series of novels. A cultural history of paper, Paper: An Elegy (4th Estate/Harper Collins), is due for publication in October 2012. The first in a new series of novels, The County Guides: Norfolk (4th Estate/Harper Collins) is due for publication in June 2013. Stephen Shapiro, MA, PhD (Yale), - Professor (on Study Leave Terms 2 and 3)Writing and the culture of the United States, particularly pre-twentieth century; urban and spatial studies; British cultural studies; formations of gender and sexuality; literary theory; world-systems analyses. More broadly, late Enlightenment, 19th, and 20th century narrative. He is currently working on a monograph about the relation of Charles Brockden Brown’s novels to the trans-Atlantic economy of goods, people, and ideas and co-editing a collection of essays on critical approaches to Brown. He has also written on issues of gentrification, moral panics, and drag. Future plans include a survey of Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks. Jonathan Skinner, BA (St. John's College), BA (Oxford University), MA (University College London), PhD (SUNY Buffalo) -- Assistant Professor Contemporary poetry and poetics, ecocriticism, animal studies, sound studies, translation and ethnopoetics, critical theory. Dr. Skinner founded and edits the journal ecopoetics Jeremy Treglown, FRSL, MA, BLitt (Oxon), PhD (London) – Professor Current and recent work is linked by a concern with the relations between social history and high culture in the twentieth century, especially the practicalities of authorship and the nature of the ‘literary establishment’, and the impact of the Second World War on fiction. Next book will be an authorized biography of the novelist and critic V.S. Pritchett. Recent projects include Romancing: The Life and Work of Henry Green (Faber, 2000), introductions to all of Green’s novels (Harvill 1991-98), and, with Deborah McVea, Contributors to ‘The Times Literary Supplement’, 1902-74: A Biographical Index, published online as part of the ‘TLS’ Centenary Archive (wwp.tls.psmedia.com, 2000) Jeremy Treglown was Editor of the TLS from 1981 to 1990. His other books include Roald Dahl: A Biography (Faber & Faber/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1994), an edited selection of the essays of Robert Louis Stevenson (Chatto & Windus/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1988) and an edition of the letters of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (Basil Blackwell/Chicago University Press, 1980). David Vann, BA (Stanford), MFA (Cornell) - Professor Creative writing (fiction and nonfiction). Published in eighteen languages, author of Dirt (2012), Last Day On Earth: A Portrait of the NIU School Shooter (2011), Caribou Island (2011), Legend of a Suicide (2008), and A Mile Down: The True Story of a Disastrous Career at Sea (2005). Forthcoming books: Goat Mountain (2013 or 2014), The Higher Blue (2014), and Crocodile: Memoirs from a Mexican Drug-Running Port (2014). He’s also written for a variety of newspapers and magazines and has been a Guggenheim Fellow, National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, and Wallace Stegner Fellow. Rashmi Varma, BA, MA (Delhi), PhD (University of Illinois, Chicago) – Associate Professor Dr Rashmi Varma joined the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at Warwick in January 2004. She is revising her book manuscript Unhomely Women: the Postcolonial City and it Subjects and co-editing the McGraw Hill Anthology of Women Writing Globally in English. Her most recent publications include: “Provincializing the Global City: from Bombay to Mumbai” (Social Text, winter 2004); “Untimely Letters: Edward Said and the Politics of the Present” (Politics and Culture, January 2004) and “Fictions of Development” (essay in Amitava Kumar ed. World Bank Literature, University of Minnesota Press, 2002). Her essay “On Common Ground?: Critical Race Studies and Feminist Theory” is in The Cambridge Companion to Feminist Theory, ed. Ellen Rooney (2005). Her current research projects include a book on the idea of the primitive in contemporary Indian culture and politics, an essay on the representation of the state in postcolonial literatures, and a co-edited book with Subir Sinha entitled After Subaltern Studies. She teaches courses in postcolonial literatures and theory, and feminist theory. |